Person Of Interest Season 3: 10 Major Improvements On Season 2
4. Utilizing Current Events
Person of Interest is built around the idea of the government and one man in particular building a machine that sees everything and, using a persons social media, phone records, behaviour, etc, is able to predict whether or not theyll be involved in a violent act, big or small. Its a grand premise which seems too unrealistic to ever happen in the real world, but the events of last summers NSA scandal really brought home the idea of the surveillance state for everyone. Edward Snowdens leak of information regarding the NSA's wire-tapping activities and hacking into people's emails not only shocked the world, but made shows and movies like Person of Interest much more plausible. Snowden was even mentioned a couple times throughout the season as Finch or Control talked about the publics opinion on government surveillance. Even social media platforms and the controversy surrounding their privacy policies got a shout out in Nothing to Hide, the debut episode of Vigilance. In the episode, they targeted the leader of a Facebook-like social media site who didnt care too much about peoples privacy and inadvertently ruined some of their lives because of his disregard. Using real world events and topics not only improved the shows overall quality, but really emphasised how much this world reflects our own.
Richard Church has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a diploma in Television Writing and Producing. He is an aspiring writer for short stories, novels and screenplays. He is also an avid fan of comic books and graphic novels.
